overstretched

英 [ˌəʊvəˈstretʃt]

美 [ˌoʊvərˈstretʃt]

adj.  (系统、机构等)超负荷运转的，硬撑着的
v.  (使)勉强维持，硬撑着，超负荷运转
overstretch的过去分词和过去式

过去式：overstretched　过去分词：overstretched　

BNC.36475 / COCA.40887

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （系统、机构等）超负荷运转的，硬撑着的
  If a system or organization isoverstretched, it is being forced to work more than it is supposed to.
  1. The crime rate is rising rapidly at present and the police force is overstretched...
     当前的犯罪率急剧上升，警力不堪重负。
  2. Analysts fear the overstretched air traffic control system could reach breaking point.
     分析人士担心超负荷运转的空中交通管制系统会面临崩溃。

双语例句

• In the 1980s and 1990s, overstretched banks regularly found themselves without money to meet withdrawals.
  在二十世纪八、九十年代，过度放贷的银行经常会发现自己没有资金应对储户的取现需求。
• In this vision of the future, American saving would rise as overstretched borrowers repaid their debts.
  在这种对未来的设想中，随着透支过度的贷款者偿还其债务，美国的储蓄会增加。
• Overstretched banks and global insurers are not the only things that are too big too fail.
  举债过多的银行和全球保险商并不是唯一大到不能倒的事物。
• The overstretched knee ligaments and tendons are also usually accompanied by changes in adjacent muscle groups, including the soleus muscle, which is deep in the calf.
  过度伸展的膝关节韧带和肌腱通常也伴随着相邻肌群的变化，比如小腿深层的比目鱼肌。
• The increase in the local population has overstretched the capacity of health services and aid agencies, while supply chains have been affected.
  当地人口急剧增长，早已超过卫生服务和援助机构所能承受的范围，而水和燃料这类重要资源也即将告罄。
• Many fear that China's overstretched property market will collapse, leaving insupportable debts in its wake.
  很多人害怕中国过热的房产市场崩盘，留下一堆无法支撑的债务。
• It will be a major challenge to introduce mechanisms that do not over-burden already overstretched health systems.
  引入一些机制而不让已经负担过度卫生系统超负荷，这是一个重大的挑战。
• Searching for a balance between work demands and personal obligations leaves them overworked, overstressed and overstretched, the study says.
  这项研究称，在工作要求和个人义务之间寻找平衡让他们工作过重、压力过大、疲劳过度。
• Overstretched, many went off sick, which made work harder for those who remained.
  在高负荷的工作下，许多人请病假，使那些剩下的护士工作将更为繁重。
• Interest is growing in schemes to control the use of overstretched roads through charging-as already happens with trucks on at least some roads in Austria, Switzerland and Germany.
  人们日益倾向于通过收费方式，控制对超负荷公路的使用至少，奥地利、瑞士和德国的一些公路已经开始对卡车收费了。